Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 382 381 Demon Dog

The Backlund serial murders are a brutal, bloody, and horrific way in which the killer announces his presence to all the residents of Backlund.

This matter caused a great stir, but although the serial murder case attracted the attention of the church, the military, and Miskatonic, its priority was now clearly lower than the issue of the true creator, the Son of God.

A serial killer might kill a few people at most, but if something goes wrong with the true creator's divine child, the problems Backlund will face are far more complex than just the deaths of a few people.

Therefore, the demigods of Backlund all went to search for the true creator god who had once again disappeared. They clearly hoped to solve that big problem in a short time rather than deal with the serial killer.

The remaining demigods stationed in Backlund are unlikely to be mobilized because of this matter, but for serial killers, ordinary extraordinary beings are far from being their match.

The premonition of danger from the demon is a powerful ability to avoid risks. If the official extraordinary team cannot find the demon, they can only worry and wait for the next opportunity.

However, this is not bad news for private investigators.

In response to Esinger Stanton's request for assistance, Don and Klein, ostensibly the great detective and his assistant but actually Miskatonic investigators, naturally felt obligated to offer some help.

"As usual, let's split up and investigate. I'll go find the other investigators. Klein, you go to the scene of the serial murders and check the situation, or investigate the case files. You should find something... Hmm, I don't think we'll run into any major problems."

Tang directed Klein and gestured for Detective Isengard to follow him.

He is a Sequence 7 detective, and Klein is also a Sequence 7 magician. Sequence 7 may not be much in Backlund, the capital of all cities, but it is enough for them to deal with most dangers.

“You are already a mature Extraordinary, Klein. Go and find clues about that serial killer, and I think if you’re not too unlucky, you shouldn’t run into him.”

Klein: ...

Tang, your flag is making me feel increasingly uneasy.

"Don't worry about it so much."

Tang smiled and waved his hand. "Alright, I'm leaving now. Ms. Archerley, several churches, and the military's extraordinary individuals are searching for that thing the whole time. There can't be any trouble in the rear."

For Miskatonic, the question of the true Creator God's Son was of greater importance to the Orthodox Church and the military.

"If there's danger, you know what to do."

Klein nodded. He actually already had a complete plan to deal with the danger that he couldn't handle.

That is to immediately recite the name of the "wrong" Mr. Nicolas Flamel.

He would rather live than lose his life.

Asking for help from fellow villagers is not shameful.

"Then, shall we go too?"

Seeing that Tang had already walked away, Klein rubbed his temples and looked at Detective Isengard Stanton beside him.

"Ok."

Isengard nodded, showing no temper or airs, and followed behind Klein.

However, seeing Klein's plan to hail a public carriage and go directly to the crime scene to check the intelligence, Isengard, as someone with experience, said meaningfully, "Shall we go to the police station to check the case files next?"

"Hmm?" Klein looked at Isengard with a puzzled expression. "Is it alright?"

“Of course.” Isengard nodded with a smile. “After all, the relationship between the police department and renowned detectives like you and me has always been quite good.”

"This is a good thing for us, and it may not necessarily be a bad thing for the police officers in the Department of Police."

Private investigation in Backlund isn't exactly a legal profession, but in such a metropolis, its existence is portrayed as semi-legal.

Although on the surface, Backlund does not allow the existence of private detectives, where there is demand, there will be people to provide them. The people in the official Extraordinary Organization can only tacitly approve of it, and it is impossible for them to arrest all those who are involved in the private detective business.

Isn't it true that the law doesn't punish everyone?
Those highly capable private investigators, in the eyes of the police department, would transform from potential gangsters who could draw their guns at any time into highly sought-after individuals.

After all, countless cases occur in Backlund every day, and the official Extraordinary Organizations generally ignore incidents without any extraordinary factors involved.

The number of extraordinary individuals is far from sufficient, which is why private detectives come into play. Those who work in this field are more or less involved in some form of supernatural power.

Even though they don't belong to any Extraordinary organization, don't have official permission, and are wild Extraordinary individuals, they are still part of Backlund's dark side and are a vibrant presence in this city.

Klein and Essinger Stanton arrived at the police station quickly in a rerouted horse-drawn carriage.

Eisinger Stanton seemed to know the officers in the police department very well, and they easily obtained the case file and began investigating the details of the serial murders.

the other side.

After Tang emerged from the Euclid space, he happened to come face to face with a dog that was gnawing on the internal organs of a woman's corpse.

It was a large black dog with eyes like lava and teeth bearing dark red, rusty marks, which were tearing and gnawing at the bloody flesh around its mouth.

"Seriously, why did you have to make it like this?"

The overwhelming stench of blood made Tang involuntarily take a few steps back. He waved his hand in disgust, and the demonic giant dog, like a wolf that had smelled food, suddenly dropped the "food" in its mouth and pounced on him.

It seems that in the eyes of this giant dog, Tang was a person who posed no threat.

but……

Tang raised an eyebrow, snapped his fingers, and the demonic giant hound stopped in mid-air.

The demonic giant hound brandished its claws and teeth, its eyes blazing with fury. One after another, illusory, transparent black threads drifted involuntarily toward Tang, where he casually manipulated them in his hands.

He didn't control these; these illusory, transparent black threads came to his hand on their own.

"After all, you just ate my food."

He said to the giant black dog.

"A bad dog that eats other people's food needs to be punished."

In the corner, the female corpse, whose internal organs had been half-eaten, suddenly moved.

The deformed, smashed body stood up strangely, and the black giant dog's eyes, which were once filled with human brilliance, suddenly revealed an expression of disbelief and incomprehension.

The woman, whose internal organs had been half-eaten, gradually changed her expression from fear to gentleness. She picked up the broken internal organs that had fallen to the ground with unusual tenderness, not caring whether they were dirty or not. After stuffing the internal organs back into her body, she swayed and took a few steps forward.

The woman, who had "come back to life," looked at the giant black dog that had just been gnawing at her flesh, but now looked terrified.

The black giant dog, having been promoted to Sequence 6, has come to understand what fear and dread are.

"Am I tasty?" The woman walked forward step by step, blood dripping from her stomach and staining the ground, but she still spoke gently.

"Am I tasty...am I tasty...am I tasty..."

Amidst the mechanical, monotonous, and unsettling repetition, the woman walked up to the giant black dog.

The loose, slippery, greasy intestines that had crawled out of the belly were held by the disemboweled woman and slowly wrapped around the neck of the immobile black giant dog.

Tang stepped aside, casually fiddling with the spiritual threads in his hand, and said to the woman:

"Don't strangle it, I still have a use for this bad dog."

The woman paused slightly as she gripped her intestines. She looked at Tang, her lips parted in a grin, revealing her mouth, teeth, and mouth stained red with blood.

“Yes, Mr. Eggers.”

Tang: ...

To be honest, sometimes even he can't stand his own taste.

The Mysterious Servant is the Mysterious Servant. Even if you gave him such a mysterious puppet from the underworld, he wouldn't want to operate it.

"However, it seems that this bad dog has already eaten quite a few of my Mystics in Backlund."

Tang looked at the giant black dog being gently "death-bound" by the woman and stroked his chin.

"For the Mysterious Attendants, the puppets they create refer to all things that possess spiritual threads. As long as one consumes these things, the person who consumes them will naturally become one of my puppets, right?"

This characteristic is a natural counter to extraordinary individuals on the Abyss Path. As long as they consume a puppet under the command of a Mysterious Servant during the ritual of ascending to the Apostle of Desire, their advancement will naturally be taken by the Mysterious Servant.

However, for Sequence 1, this level of secret couplets is of little use.

Tang looked with some disdain at the black giant dog, whose neck had been compressed into a very small section by its intestines. After being freed from its restraints and transformed into a puppet, it was unusually quiet. Tang then communicated with his system.

"I have no desire to manipulate these kinds of secret puppets; they're disgusting."

He frowned and began assembling the bionic puppet module into the new puppet of the Demonic Path Sequence 6.

After doing all this, he smiled and said, "That's it."

Ah, the demon. Come to think of it, his first puppet was also a demon.

Even the sequence and potion are the same; I wonder if this counts as fate.

Yes, thinking about it that way, that's definitely the case.

He advanced to Sequence 4, becoming a Trickster, using a divine vessel from the Demon King Fabuti.

"I have to say, I have quite a connection with the Abyss Path."

Moreover, this guy really ate quite a few of his secret puppets and created such a big spectacle. So, let him slowly work his way up and make up for the loss.

"I need to inform the other investigators about this first, since it's a big deal."

Tang glanced at the woman who was collecting her own internal organs, and at the black giant dog that was quietly hiding in the corner, having been implanted with the "Bionic Doll" module and instilled with knowledge, and had begun to shut itself in place.

Every single person this guy killed after arriving in Backlund wasn't really a "human."

Of course, the ritual was completed. After all, a puppet is also a kind of "person," just in a different state, isn't it?
Ah, now that you mention it...

Tang seemed to realize something, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"How about this, you run away first, as far as you can. As long as you can still trigger the Apostle of Desire's advancement ceremony within Backlund, I will directly give you the extraordinary characteristics of an Apostle of Desire after you complete the ceremony, helping you advance to Sequence 5. How about that?"

"Although they are all my puppets, as long as you can complete this, in my eyes your value will be higher than that of the other puppets. You will be able to do more things, gain more freedom, possess stronger extraordinary abilities and physique, advance to demigod, become an angel, and perhaps even become a god through your own efforts?"

Tang was very good at making grand promises.

The woman who had stuffed her own internal organs paused, then looked at the demon hound in the corner, whose wounds were rapidly healing thanks to the spirit insects it had acquired after becoming a golem.

"Kill it..."

"We can't kill it now; this is a fair game."

Tang looked at the woman: "Of course, if you kill it, I can also give you my Spirit Worm, allowing you to become a higher-level Mystic Doll and evolve."

evolution……

The word seemed to unlock something; the woman's unfocused pupils widened slightly, and her lips curled into a wild grin, revealing her teeth.

"Okay...okay...Mr. Eggers...you keep your word..."

"Of course, I never lie."

The demon dog met the eyes of the woman it had bitten to death, shrank its neck, and then fled like the wind.

The woman stared intently in the direction the demon hound had gone, then slowly walked into the alley and disappeared into the shadows.

Tang stood there, lost in thought.

"Tongzi."

he said softly.

'What's wrong, host?'

The system that is also part of the historical pore imagery, which is located next to the host historical pore imagery, spoke up at this moment.

Having been largely unnoticed for a long time, it sensed Tang's thoughtful expression. Its cybernetic brain raced, and it immediately grasped the key point, saying:
'Host, are you thinking about the problem with this puppet?'

"Hmm, she's too aggressive. Am I being too sensitive? I have a feeling that this marionette isn't behaving according to the preset state of those 'bionic marionette' modules."

Tang narrowed his eyes and said, "I sense that there are bad people causing trouble."

The system checked the status of the secret puppet. 'Hmm, but host, everything seems normal on our end.'

"Then you probably need to upgrade your core components, right?"

System: As expected, our host's aggressiveness is still so strong.

(End of this chapter)